This is the programme that accompanied the presentation of the autograph manuscript of Of Human Bondage to the Library of Congress. It was acquired together with Of Human Bondage with a Digression on the Art of Fiction (1946).The programme contains…
Note that this copy doesn't have square bracket enclosing "All rights reserved" and thus isn't the first issue that Stott talks about. He does mention that there are copies, like this one, with this variant, but can't be certain when they come into…
"To celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of W. Somerset Maugham's first novel, which first appeared in September, 1897, this edition of 1,000 copies, numbered and signed by the author has been printed and made" (dust jacket front flap).
Stott mentions 3 binding variants (with different advertisements at the end of book), of which this is the second, with title in gold letters and the rest in black.
"This Renaissance tale was Somerset Maugham's second novel. It was first published in 1898, when the author was twenty-three, and has been out of print and practically forgotten for years. Shortly after its publication, Maugham made every effort to…
This is the first book on the cover of which Maugham had his Moorish symbol against the evil eye printed. However, it was printed upside down. When Maugham pointed this out to Hutchinson, the symbol was corrected on some copies specially bound for…
Stott mentions 3 bindings, and this copy is differentiated by the top gilt edge and the spine with gold letters. It isn't clear whether this is binding (i) or (ii) as the colour, after over a hundred years, is hard to tell.
When Mrs. Craddock's manuscript was sent to Heinemann it was rejected for indecency. It was refused by many publishers until it went to Robertson Nicoll. He saw its potentials, but didn't think it was the type of book published by his firm, Hodder &…
This belongs to Heinemann's pocket edition, which, according to Stott, was scarce in his time. There are all together 16 volumes. They were published more or less at the same time of the Collected Edition, and are supposedly smaller and cheaper. The…
From the front flap of the dust jacket:
"Mr Somerset Maugham has written a Preface to this new edition of his second novel, Mrs. Craddock, which has not been in print for many years.
"He wrote it in 1900, he explains, and because it was thought…
